Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Silly; foolish.

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Examples

  • But them sickenin ', sap-headed stiffs, with the grit of rabbits and the silk of mangy ky-yi's, a-cheerin' me -- ME!

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • "A sap-headed fool, I guess it was, that found him, and let him slip off in that way," said Colwell.

    Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

  • That portion of society whose master-spirits are love-stricken poets, languishing girls, amorous grandmothers, and sap-headed fiction writers, is certainly unfit for a place in the parlor of the Christian family.

    The Christian Home Samuel Philips

  • But them sickenin ', sap-headed stiffs, with the grit of rabbits and the silk of mangy ky-yi's, a-cheerin' me -- ME!

    Chapter 10 1913

  • Not a whisper from a sap-headed youth or a yap from an aged degenerate or a giggle from a silly woman broke the death-like stillness.

    The Root of Evil Thomas Dixon 1905

  • Of all the sap-headed milksops I-- Put in some dirt!

    A Double-Barreled Detective Story 1902

  • But with these facts so plain, that they are question - you find beardless boys, and small, sap-headed editors sneering at the ladies of the Temperance Union - as being "out of their place" - unwomanly - a "hard lot," - and other kindred terms.

    Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth, 1901

  • It was an awful day, Alfred, and I wouldn't go through another like it for no sap-headed man that ever walked the earth.

    Dixie Hart 1888

  • But I reckon it was the sight of that sap-headed idiot with my girl that did most of it.

    Dixie Hart 1888

  • There are so few scholars among the sap-headed plug-uglies of this town that it is a real pleasure to converse with a gentleman of culture.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

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